Quotes about Influence
It is the universal corruption and profligacy of the times, which taking its rise amongst the rich and luxurious has now extended its baneful influence and spread its destructive poison through the whole body of the people.
— Eric Metaxas
What happened is surprisingly simple: William Wilberforce was the happy victim of his own success.
— Eric Metaxas
Newton didn't tell him what he had expected—that to follow God he would have to leave politics. On the contrary, Newton encouraged Wilberforce to stay where he was, saying that God could use him there.
— Eric Metaxas
The Luther Bible was to the modern German language what the works of Shakespeare and the King James Bible were to the modern English language. Before Luther's Bible, there was no unified German language.
— Eric Metaxas
When Wilberforce's mother and grandfather sent him to live with his aunt and uncle, they hadn't the slightest idea that they were sending the boy into a glowing hotbed of Methodism.
— Eric Metaxas
Wilberforce's time at Cambridge over two hundred years ago sounds extraordinarily like the experience of many college students today.
— Eric Metaxas
Taken all together, it's difficult to escape the verdict that William Wilberforce was simply the greatest social reformer in the history of the world.
— Eric Metaxas
If we cannot shape our destiny there as no such thing as witchcraft.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Judaism is not complete without Christianity and without Judaism,Christianity would not exist
— Benjamin Disraeli
Governments do not govern, but merely control the machinery of government, being themselves controlled by the hidden hand.
— Benjamin Disraeli
The Youth of a Nation are the trustees of posterity.
— Benjamin Disraeli
I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
— Benjamin Disraeli